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Wild Open Swim

Inspirations from swimming through the seasons

The Wild Open Swim Blog is a celebration of open water swimming all year and the photographs, words and artwork that it has inspired.

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Melanie

Feb 12
6 min

A Blind Swimmer’s Vision

What is it like to be a partially-sighted wild swimmer? A double paralympic champion Melanie writes about her wild swimming journey.

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Debbie, Emma and Darrin

Jan 15
6 min

Every Body Counts

A story of how two wild swimmers in Swim Oxford's 4K Lock-to-Lock swim inadvertently helped to turn around the life of one of my clients.

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It's beginning to look a bit like winter

Three wild swimmers: Fiona, Darrin and Kath

Nov 6, 2021
4 min

It's beginning to look a bit like winter

Three wild swimmers reflect on the return of winter swims

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kath Fotheringham

May 29, 2021
4 min

Is it clean…?

We all have strategies to risk-assess the water every time we swim. Is it clean enough to swim in?

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Fiona Undrill & Katrine Gotliebsen

Apr 24, 2021
5 min

All year swimming in North Norway

open water swimming all year round near the arctic circle

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Annika Surry

Mar 27, 2021
4 min

Cold water has changed my life

I love the kick, the buzzing feeling that awakens the whole nervous system and all the senses I love the “I am alive feeling” I get.

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Darrin Roles

Mar 13, 2021
4 min

For whom the drop calls…

The uninitiated, not knowing this beast, may not appreciate the urgency with which cold hands dress themselves. The drop waits for no-one.

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Stanley Ulijaszek

Feb 27, 2021
4 min

Seasoned winter swimming

Winter swimming is one of the most humbling things you can do, because you can’t succeed if you try to fight the coldness of the water.

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